Productive, Structural and Dynamic Study of the Concept of Sustainability in the Educational Field
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Research Objectives
- To identify the scientific output and production of the terms “sustainability” and “education” in scientific texts.
- To know the scientific evolution of the concepts of sustainability and education.
- To determine the most relevant themes in the field of study on sustainability and education.
3. Materials and Methods
4. Results
4.1. Performance and Scientific Production
4.2. Structural and Thematic Development
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Configuration | Values |
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Analysis unit | Keywords |
Frequency reduction | P1(7), P2(11), P3(14) |
Kind of matrix | Co-occurrence |
Network reduction | P1(4), P2(4), P3(9) |
Normalization measure | Equivalence index |
Clustering algorithm | Maximum: 9, minimum: 3 |
Evolution map | Jaccard Index |
Overlapping map | Inclusion index |
Period 2009–2012 | ||||||
Name | Works | Index-h | Index-g | Index-hg | Index-q2 | Citations |
Sustainability | 230 | 33 | 58 | 43.75 | 45.23 | 4472 |
Sustainable-development | 45 | 21 | 33 | 26.32 | 25.51 | 115 |
Intervention | 17 | 11 | 17 | 13.67 | 18.17 | 467 |
Knowledge | 21 | 11 | 20 | 14.83 | 18.17 | 478 |
Biodiversity | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6.48 | 13.42 | 216 |
Performance | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5.92 | 12.65 | 213 |
Policy | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7.48 | 10.91 | 174 |
Period 2013–2015 | ||||||
Name | Works | Index-h | Index-g | Index-hg | Index-q2 | Citations |
University | 197 | 28 | 47 | 36.28 | 39.24 | 3151 |
Health | 56 | 15 | 23 | 18.57 | 20.12 | 738 |
Education | 175 | 24 | 35 | 28.98 | 29.39 | 1995 |
Management | 50 | 16 | 27 | 20.78 | 21.91 | 797 |
Attitudes | 44 | 17 | 24 | 20.2 | 18.44 | 712 |
Students | 39 | 11 | 15 | 12.85 | 13.67 | 308 |
Model | 22 | 8 | 18 | 12 | 12.33 | 325 |
Environmental-education | 13 | 5 | 9 | 6.71 | 8.94 | 88 |
Sustainability-education | 11 | 6 | 10 | 7.75 | 10.39 | 115 |
Tool | 8 | 5 | 7 | 5.92 | 13.42 | 147 |
Quality of life | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5.92 | 7.75 | 178 |
Implementation | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8.49 | 13.56 | 289 |
Period 2016–2019 | ||||||
Name | Works | Index-h | Index-g | Index-hg | Index-q2 | Citations |
Sustainability | 1168 | 20 | 25 | 22.36 | 21.45 | 2948 |
Intervention | 125 | 8 | 11 | 9.38 | 9.8 | 329 |
Education for sustainability | 82 | 8 | 10 | 8.94 | 10.58 | 214 |
Attitudes | 110 | 10 | 14 | 11.83 | 13.42 | 375 |
Performance | 172 | 13 | 21 | 16.52 | 16.91 | 640 |
Sustainable-development | 98 | 10 | 14 | 11.83 | 13.04 | 322 |
Ethics | 27 | 5 | 6 | 5.48 | 5.92 | 51 |
Conservation | 24 | 5 | 13 | 8.06 | 8.37 | 177 |
Policy | 22 | 6 | 11 | 8.12 | 10.39 | 128 |
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Rodríguez-García, A.-M.; López Belmonte, J.; Agreda Montoro, M.; Moreno-Guerrero, A.-J. Productive, Structural and Dynamic Study of the Concept of Sustainability in the Educational Field. Sustainability 2019, 11, 5613. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205613
Rodríguez-García A-M, López Belmonte J, Agreda Montoro M, Moreno-Guerrero A-J. Productive, Structural and Dynamic Study of the Concept of Sustainability in the Educational Field. Sustainability. 2019; 11(20):5613. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205613
Chicago/Turabian StyleRodríguez-García, Antonio-Manuel, Jesús López Belmonte, Miriam Agreda Montoro, and Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero. 2019. "Productive, Structural and Dynamic Study of the Concept of Sustainability in the Educational Field" Sustainability 11, no. 20: 5613. https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205613